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" I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed. "
Iman
Out
Woman
Finding
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" People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle. "
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" When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl. "
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" I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me. "
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" We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60. "
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" The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them. "
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" I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come. "
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" I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts. "
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" That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me. "
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" I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day. "
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" You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise. "
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" Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard. "
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" My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles. "
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Lines
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" Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field. "
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Me
" When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you. "
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Think
" I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali. "
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" Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin. "
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Own
Beauty
" I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile. "
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" When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza. "
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" I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim. "
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Practicing
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" I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me. "
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" I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress. "
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Progress
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" I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage. "
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" Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good. "
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" Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. "
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" I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry. "
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" My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again. "
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" People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. "
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" Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey. "
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